I will die on the hill that country music reached its peak in the 1970s. Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Dolly Parton were becoming the icons we know them as today. At the same time, John Prine ...

In many ways, country music tells the story of America. There is the celebration of rural life and the yearning to recapture a seemingly simpler time. There are murder ballads, cheating songs, tunes ...

These country songs uphold the classic tradition of spoken-word lyrics. Revisit this convention of country music via these ...